Dark Continent
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- (dated, informal) Africa.
- 1879, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 March 1879
- De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Boy of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing tho isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.
- 1903, The Advertiser Adelaide, 10 November 1903
- Africa is still the Dark Continent, the land of the unknown, the remarkable.
- 1879, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 March 1879
- French: continent noir
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